Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba akalele (my is not at peace)

nomfo' kasibiya izolo
(I met up with yesterday)
Wathi "we-jonathan, angiphathekile mina
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho inkomo yakhe
(I dream of my late pointing at his ox)
Ngikhumbula engitshela "wemfana wami
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wemfana
(on the day I pass away and leave earth)
Musa ngebokisi (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
wami
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba emhlophe, wemfana wami
(you should bury me in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
Awungihambisa emhlophe
(you should me on my last journey by means of a white ox)
Inkomo, kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!
(the ox, the ox of my father....)

Akalele ubaba
(father is not at at home)
Akafuni ibokisi, ufuna
(he does not want a coffin, he an ox)
Akalele ubaba
(father is not at home)
Washo wathi "jonathan lalela lana
(sibiya saying, "jonathan, listen here.)
kababa kwenzeka isimanga
(on the day my father died a most unfortunate happened)
bomndeni babethi bayamdumisa
(our family thought they would give great sendoff)
Bamfihla ngebokisi
(and they buried him in a coffin, he did not want this)
thina sodwa bomndeni (x2)
(we among ourselves, we the members of the family)
Saxabana ngathi mina bayasithela ngebadi
(we argued because I said they had done something which would great
Misfortune)
Benkunzima ngelelolanga sifihla
(it was the day we buried my father)
ngelelolanga
(it was that day)

Ubaba akalele ekhaya, isibaya
(father is not at ease at home, his spirit wanders the cattle
Enclosure)
Ibokisi lakhe
(it imprisoned by the coffin)
Ufuna isikhumba senkomo (x2)
(his still wants to be accompanied by his ox)